“Truth looks tawdry when she is overdressed.” — Rabindranath Tagore
“There is no harm in being a quiet person, but when you are required to speak, then you must speak.” — Y. Algohar
“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.” — Stanley Fish
“People will talk behind your back. Make sure you give them an interesting topic.” — Steve Mehr
“The bird who dares to fall is the bird who learns to fly.” — Unknown
“He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.” — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
“Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.” — Clarence Darrow
“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.” — Claude McDonald
“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” — Henry David Thoreau
“The first page sells that book; the last page sells your next book.” — Mickey Spillane
“Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.” — Samuel Butler
“I like terra firma – the more firma, the less terra.” — George S. Kaufman
“Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.” — Unknown
“If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.” — Bette Davis
“When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.” — Gordon Atkinson
“You win some, you lose some, and then there’s that little known third category.” — Al Gore
“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.” — Latin Proverb
“Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you.” — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.” — Indira Gandhi
“He who laughs, lasts.” — Mary Pettibone Poole
“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.” — William Arthur Ward
“To all my doubters, thank you very much because you have also pushed me.” — Usain Bolt
“When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.” — Lyndon Johnson
“Who depends on another man’s table often dines late.” — Italian Proverb
“When my circle got smaller, my vision got clearer.” — Unknown
“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.” — George Santayana
“I usually take a two hour nap from 1 to 4.” — ‘Yogi’ Berra
“The talent should speak for itself.” — Jennifer Hudson
“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.” — Stephen King
“You call it procrastination. I call it thinking.” — Aaron Sorkin
“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.” — Joseph Campbell
“One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.” — Woodrow Wilson
“The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes.” — Harold B. Lee
“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Real life is under no obligation to be convincing.” — Neil Gaiman
“Voters don’t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.” — George Will
“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.” — Charles Schaefer
“I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.” — Dorothy Parker